PSI CHI at RMPA
Psi Chi has a strong presence at RMPA.
Psi Chi organizes an annual service activity at RMPA on Thursday morning from 8:00-noon. The Psi Chi service activity and conference programming is open to all students, both graduate and undergraduate, regardless of current Psi Chi membership. RMPA encourages students to attend and present at the Convention.
History of Psychology in the Rocky Mountain Region
Rocky Mountain Psychological Association
Convention Poster Session
This is a formal Call for Papers for a special poster session on the History of Psychology in the Rocky Mountain Region. We invite every Psi Chi and Psi Beta chapter in the Rocky Mountain region to examine the history of psychology at their college or university and to submit a poster about their institutional history for consideration in the RMPA Convention.
We hope these historical research posters can increase knowledge about psychological history within and across universities in the Rocky Mountain region, provide a venue for teacher-scholars (i.e., Psi Chi and Psi Beta Advisors and others) to work with teams of excited students, and provide students with opportunities to earn authorship on these convention presentations.
As you prepare your research posters, we encourage you to consider the following questions:
1. When did psychology arrive on your campus?
When did the department begin?
When did the first psychology faculty arrive?
How did psychology fit the larger mission of the university?
Who were the first psychology students?
2. Who were early faculty and students, and what did they study and accomplish?
3. When did diverse students and faculty arrive at your university?
We encourage you to consider diversity broadly, in terms of race, ethnicity, gender identity, income, nationality, language, physical and cognitive abilities, and other intersecting identities.
4. What major changes in the college/university and the department have shaped the development of the psychology teaching, research, service, and practice at your college/university?
5. What historical factors shaped the currents status of the department?
6. What are current activities and future goals?
How does the history of the department shape the plans for the future?
7. What other questions belong here?
We encourage you to develop your own questions. For example, some departments changed dramatically during World Wars. In many other departments, faculty transitioned from narrow areas of psychology (e.g., educational psychology or behaviorism) into broader, more intellectually diverse departments. What was the psychological landscape like at your institution and how did it change into the present?
8. Remember that university archivists and long-serving members of your department can provide insight, guidance, and historical data.
We hope this call for papers forms an exciting invitation. Please contact Doug Woody (william.woody@unco.edu) with any questions. He looks forward to hearing from you.
Images from the Annual Convention
Graduate and undergraduate Psi Chi members are eligible to apply for the Regional Research Award ($400). When you submit your proposal to RMPA you will have the opportunity to indicate whether you would like to be considered.
Psi Chi members are encouraged to offset travel expenses to RMPA by applying for a Regional Travel Grant
Psi Chi Service Project in Denver, 2018
Images below are from the 2018 Convention
